The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-02-27
LAUNDERING BIZ WIRE
ERRORS WHICH BRING ANNOYANCE
AMUSEMENT a Loss.

.Opsrsaors-Hew Loag Cireuits s.d
weak Csrrsats Play the Mischief
Biunders 81 bad Writing.
Many Quaint stosies aSp related a rs
ting type. 1.-THE Intelligent composftor"
has become an expression Of satirical re-
proach in Newspaper Offices, and blunders
are nakurally shOuldered upon him, no mat
ter by whom made II = not e1ooe IN tho
composing room that Ridiculous errors occur.
The telegraph Office h one 81 the most fruit
full fields for what are termed "bulls'' in
telegraphers' nomenclature, that y, sEoD
made in transmitting messages, whereby
they are rendered meaningless, or, ~ senDe-
times occurs, serious subjects are trans
formed into jokes
There are very good reasons, no doubt,
for some of the mistakes recorded a8nin1t
telegraph operators There are no excuses,
no good reasons, for others. Some are the
result Of sheer stupidity, iGnoxant opGators
hang sst to do work requiring mt aeone
skin in nanipulating hey, hpt intpliencs
behind all. No doubt poor penmanship il
responsible for the errors Of the telegraph
a. II h for the blunders Of the competing
room Ths operator who reAds .'haasss'
for horse may have had his copy written by
the saMe eslitor Who Dashed OF . csticinn
ON ssGirode 0iro6A I" ard who 4was dumb
founded q nnA that the compapitoP had
made Il '6ni1ls 6noNle.''s Ye6 = dous ma
always follow tthat this b tie 60, for .
Telegram has been known to be transmitted
Eyes" when the copy made IL ''No," with
copper plate or poster type distinctnsss.
WEAK sIEo1eIcAL CIRCUITS.
=
also in<lirecsly responsible for mistakes,
even though competent and careful oper
stors may preside At both ends Of the line.
Letters eomppssa eptirely Of dns are often
metamosphosed, an being received ~ an
l. for instance, the second dot Of which the
II composed becoming ATTACKED to the fol-
lowing letter and completely changing the
photography; o. ~ may turn out an
and icosbined, ~ dots becnming separated
through faulty working Of the electric cur
rent, thus Calling out, " - the telegrapher
cause win alter letters, and unless the receiv-
ing operator Is exceptionally careful and
quick to guess thu meaning Of s'bullsd'
words he may perpetznte errors which will
cost him salary as well ~ reputation
As has been mentioned above, long cir
cults ana wealPeleotrical eprrenh frsqUently
play the mischief with dots and dashes.
In0y I0Il Out, - tuo Op0f 8LOxo ~, VIII
ish or commingle, until, oftentimes, two
or more letters are blended or, - with short
letters, fail entirely to 60 through. This
might account for Transforming ''baseball'
into "bax ham gag" where and and II
are liable to be misunderstood for = and IN.
Another, with which many expert oper-
ators are familiar is the old time .'Cog hog.
Jags Ia not 1OO," when il was intended that
the recipient should understand he was to
''Come home. James il not we'll" Here
the receiving operator pobably has COM
mitted the old error Of reading (by sound g
for me, the signs for which are quite SINH
lar, while ''well," If not carefully read (by
sound, n liable to be transformed into
100" OF course, no careful operator
would permit such perversion Of words to
leave his hands; still such messages have
been sent out, no doubt to the great bewil-
derment Of those for whom they we're in
tended.
"When the swamows hogward hy" was
what . careless plug operator made Of
the familiar quotation which came to him
one night in . special telegram to . New
York paper. II he read the paper next
day, he was no doubt surprised to discover
that IL had been turned by the careful tele-
graph editor into when the Swallows
Homeward Fly" It must have been the
same telegrapher who made John Howard
Foyne'S DeauttIul lines READ, 'f1Og, SwOt
Hog, there's no place like hog
It would appear to be impossible to turn
. message reading simply mo" into Eyes, +"
yet instances Of this kind are by no means
rare. They are the result, no doubt, Of alb
sent mindedness, the sending operator, per-
haps, being engaged in an interesting con-
versation with some associate in his Office,
- not infrequently happens, ~ he ticks of
the letters which entirely change the mean
ing Of some very important business mes
sage. Another example Of carelessness was
in . message sent from San Francisco TO .
lady in New York by her husband, who in
endeavoring to advise hsr laeonically and
cheaply as to what shs should do about
joining him, wro1p in ths blink, DO moth
ing aboat furniturer TIL was turned
into do nothing without furaiturs.'' ana
the result was TIE SsoipierA ptisAsd -
was to taks fnrniturS With hsr, invested
$1,000 in household goods, to discover later
ON that they were not wanted Az . cOass-
quence = suit was brought against the conn
pany.
BLUNDERs OF BAD WRITING.
Blind writing Is rssponible for many Of
the blunders made in sending messages, -,
for instance, Mother Is very well, 7" when
In reality mother was very III. I"
mother died to-day went through from .
southern Office and was received at New
York Weather bad to-day" There may
be some excuse for confounding wsathsr
and mother from similarity Of the Morse
sounds mO and wea, but no explanatioa Of
this kind would account foe misreading
bad, for "died.'
.sSsnd check this afternoon" has been
made to read ''Send chase this afternoon. ~
.Your bacon" has become ''Your banker
and Salmon received has been metamor-
phosed into Balloon received" ''Send no
more Was wired by . commission mer-
chant to party from whom he was receiv-
ing large quantities Of produce for sale, and
II put thu recipient to much inconvenience
and eventually sahjected him 10 considerable
loss, for the message As he received it read,
.'Send ON more" and he exerted himself
accordingly 20 meet the demand